Hi, Wildros, That quote from Romeo & Juliet was the one that confused me a lot when I tried to related it to Umberto Eco's Rose. I think that what Shakespeare is saying is just the opposite to what Eco is saying about the rose. Shakespear

Thank you all for your replies! Knoff, sorry for delaying my answer. I live in Bulgaria (I don't think many people know it). It is a small country on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe (111,000 sq. km all in all). It was a communist state (a USSR

Thank you for the prompt reply, MrM!

Hello, What time is 12.50 p.m.? Is it 50 min after noon or 50 min after midnight? Thanks in advance!

Thank you so much, Knoff, for the exhaustive reply! It's really strange, as I understand that you can get an ID card but you are not obliged to have one. I guess it is connected with the state of development. In my country you get a Unified

I think the way you've punctuated it is correct: Is it legal or illegal to say: "If the union calls you out on an economic strike, the company has the right to stop paying your insurance premiums."? With a question mark. Cheers!

Hi you all! A colleague of mine says that people in Great Britain and the USA do not have identification documents (other than a driving licence)! I simply cannot believe it. Is that true? Anybody from GB and the USA (without a driving licence) -

I definitely think that there is irony here. Otherwise "intimately" would not be in inverted commas. "Theatrical" for me is play on words, as suggested above: those people were both connected with theater and were "theatrical", artificial.

Hi, Antonia, Though I though "tack" was a typo of "track", it turned out that tack has a similar meaning: Webster's: a course of action, esp. one differing from some preceding or other course (ex. took the wrong tack). Does it make it clear

Hi, Sunilbhasin, I agree that victims and casualties are not necesserily dead, but can you suggest something better?